Roadside Attractions is an American production company and film distributor based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2003 by Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff,[1] specializing largely in independent films. Lionsgate bought a portion of Roadside in 2007.[2][3]

Roadside attraction
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A roadside attraction is a feature along the side of a road meant to attract tourists. In general, these are places one might stop on the way to somewhere and they are frequently advertised with billboards. The modern tourist-oriented highway attraction originated as a U. S. and Western Canadian phenomenon in the 1940s to 1960s, and subsequently ca

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A sign adverting a "Convict Robot Exhibition" at a small museum and shop on the side of the highway which links the city of Hobart and the former convict settlement at Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia

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Remnant of US 66 through small Texas Town

Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county

California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and th

Lionsgate
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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. doing business as Lionsgate, is an American, Canadian-domiciled entertainment & media company. The company was formed on July 10,1997, in Vancouver, British Columbia and it owns a variety of subsidiaries such as the American film production company Summit Entertainment, and Debmar-Mercury, a television syndication com

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The 2005-present logo

Walk on Water (film)
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Walk on Water is an Israeli film released in 2004. It stars Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters and it was directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox. The screenplay was written by Gal Uchovsky, most of the dialogue takes place in English, although there is much in Hebrew and German. Its name derives in part from Jesus walkin

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ללכת על המים (aka Walk on Water)

Eytan Fox
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Eytan Fox is an Israeli film director. Fox was born in New York City and moved with his family to Israel when he was two and his father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a leading professor of Jewish education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His mother, Sara Kaminker-Fox, was the head of the Jerusalem city council, Fox has two broth

Samuel Goldwyn Films
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Samuel Goldwyn Films is an American film company which licenses, releases and distributes art-house, independent and foreign films. It was founded by Samuel Goldwyn Jr. the son of the Hollywood business magnate/mogul, the current incarnation is a successor to The Samuel Goldwyn Company. This is a list of films distributed and/or produced by Samuel

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Samuel Goldwyn Films

Super Size Me
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Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlocks film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2,2003, Spurlock ate at McDonalds restaurants three times per day, eating every item on the chains menu at least once. Spurlock consumed an average of 20.9 meg

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Theatrical release poster

Morgan Spurlock
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The film was his directorial debut, following his contributions as a production assistant on the features Bullets over Broadway, Léon, The Professional and Kiss of Death. Spurlocks other notable films include Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden, POM Wonderful Presents, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Comic-Con Episode IV, A Fans Hope and One Direct

Remember Me, My Love
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Remember Me, My Love is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Gabriele Muccino. Tagline, Some loves are never forgotten, at first glance the Ristuccia family is apparently normal and close-knit, but all of its members are hiding something. Carlo, the head of the family, would like to become a rather than continue working in an insurance company. Giulia,

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Remember Me, My Love (Ricordati di me)

Ladies in Lavender
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Ladies in Lavender is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Charles Dance, who based his screenplay on a short story by William J. Locke. Set in picturesque coastal Cornwall, in a fishing village in 1936, Ladies in Lavender stars Judi Dench and Maggie Smith playing the leading roles of sisters Ursula. A gifted young Polish violinist fro

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Original poster

Charles Dance
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Walter Charles Dance, OBE is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains, Charles Dance was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, the son of Eleanor, a cook, and Walter Dance, an engineer. Growing up in Plymouth, he attended Widey Technical School for Boys in Crownhill, Dance was a member o

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Dance at the London Film and Comic Con, July 2012.

Pretty Persuasion
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Pretty Persuasion is a 2005 American black comedy/satirical film about a 15-year-old schoolgirl who makes an allegation of sexual harassment against her drama teacher. The films tagline is, Revenge knows no mercy and it was written by Skander Halim and directed by Marcos Siega. It stars Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods and Ron Livingston and was relea

Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
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Sarah Silverman, Jesus Is Magic is a 2005 comedy written by and starring Sarah Silverman, directed by Liam Lynch and distributed by Roadside Attractions. The movie is a film consisting of 72 minutes of clips taken from Silvermans previous stand-up show of the same name, interspersed with flashbacks. Silverman addresses a number of topics, including

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Sarah Silverman

Lassie (2005 film)
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The film was directed, written, and co-produced by Charles Sturridge and is a production of Samuel Goldwyn Films. The film stars Jonathan Mason and was distributed by Roadside Attractions, filming took place in Scotland, Ireland and on the Isle of Man. The supporting cast features Peter OToole, Samantha Morton, Peter Dinklage, Edward Fox, the film

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UK theatrical release poster

Wah-Wah (film)
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Wah-Wah is a 2005 British-French-South African drama film, written and directed by British actor Richard E. Grant and loosely based on his childhood in Swaziland. It stars Nicholas Hoult, Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, filmed and set in Swaziland, the film was first shown at the Cannes Film Market on 13 May 2005 and premiered at t

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Richard E. Grant
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Richard E. Grant is a Swazi-English actor, screenwriter, director and perfumier. Grant was born Richard Grant Esterhuysen in Mbabane, Swaziland and his father, Henrik Esterhuysen, was head of education for the British government administration in the British Protectorate of Swaziland. His father had English and Dutch/Afrikaner ancestry and his moth

The Puffy Chair
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The Puffy Chair is a 2005 road movie mumblecore, film written and directed by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass. It stars Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton and Rhett Wilkins, the film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005, and went onto screen at South by Southwest in March 2005, winning the Audience Award. The film was released

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The Puffy Chair

Jay Duplass
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Lawrence Jay Duplass is an American film director and actor. Widely known for his films The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home, made in collaboration with his younger brother, Duplass stars in the Amazon Video comedy-drama series Transparent, and co-created the HBO comedy-drama series Togetherness. Duplass was born in New Orleans, Loui

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Duplass in October 2011

Mark Duplass
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Mark David Duplass is an American film director, film producer, actor, musician, and screenwriter. He is the brother of director, writer, and actor Jay Duplass, together, the brothers started the film production company Duplass Brothers Productions, and have directed films such as The Puffy Chair, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon

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Duplass in October 2011

Michael Winterbottom
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Not to be confused with the classical scholar Michael Winterbottom. Michael Winterbottom is an English filmmaker and he began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films—Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People—have competed for the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, Winterbottom was

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Michael Winterbottom, 2009

Boynton Beach Club
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Boynton Beach Club is a 2005 film directed by Susan Seidelman, a romantic comedy produced by her and her mother Florence. Based on experiences of Florence and her widowed friend David Cramer at an adult enclave in Boynton Beach, marilyn is a woman unexpectedly plunged into grief when her otherwise healthy husband is killed by a woman backing her ca

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Boynton Beach Club

Susan Seidelman
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Susan Seidelman is an American film director, producer and writer. She came to prominence in the 1980s with Smithereens, the first American independent feature to be screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and her next feature Desperately Seeking Susan co-starred Madonna in her first film. She-Devil co-starred Roseanne Barr in her first

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Seidelman directing in 2004

Come Early Morning
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Come Early Morning is a 2006 film starring Ashley Judd and Jeffrey Donovan. It marked the debut of Joey Lauren Adams. The movie was shot throughout the metropolitan Little Rock, Arkansas area including Pulaski Heights and it premiered for wide release in Little Rock on December 14,2006. Through her grandmother, she finds out that her father, a shy

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Promotional movie poster for the film

Joey Lauren Adams
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Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and director who has appeared in more than 40 films. She began her career in 1977 with a small role in Exorcist II. From there she began to find larger roles, in 1991, she appeared in Top of the Heap, the 100th episode of Married. With Children, and subsequently starred in its short-lived spinoff, in 1993, A

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Adams at the 2015 Wizard World Cleveland

Amazing Grace (2006 film)
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The title is a reference to the hymn Amazing Grace. The film also recounts the experiences of John Newton as a crewman on a ship and subsequent religious conversion. Newton is portrayed as an influence on Wilberforce and the abolition movement. In 1796, William Wilberforce is severely ill and taking a holiday in Bath, Somerset, with his cousin. It

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Michael Apted
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Michael David Apted, CMG is an English director, producer, writer and actor. He is one of the most prolific British film directors of his generation, and directed the Up Series of documentaries, on 29 June 2003 he was elected president of the Directors Guild of America. He returned to television, directing the first three episodes of the TV series

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Michael Apted, April 2007

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Michael Apted at the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards

Lonely Hearts (2006 film)
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Lonely Hearts is a 2006 American film directed and written by Todd Robinson. It is based on the story of the notorious Lonely Hearts Killers of the 1940s, Martha Beck. The story of Beck and Fernandez was also the subject of the 1970 film The Honeymoon Killers, directed by Leonard Kastle, Raymond Fernandez is a con man who meets single, rich women t

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Lonely Hearts

Fido (film)
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Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton. It was produced by Blake Corbet, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Trent Carlson and Kevin Eastwood of Anagram Pictures, the film takes place in a 1950s-esque alternate universe where radiation from spa

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Colma: The Musical
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Colma, The Musical is a 2006 American musical independent film directed by Richard Wong and written by H. P. Along the way, they learn what to hold on to. The film features 13 songs all written and produced by H. P, Colma, The Musical was released through Roadside Attractions in partnership with Lions Gate Entertainment. The film premiered March 21

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Colma: The Musical

Right at Your Door
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Right at Your Door is a 2006 American thriller film about a couple and follows the events surrounding them when multiple dirty bombs detonate in Los Angeles. Chris Gorak both wrote the screenplay and directed the film in his writing and directorial debuts and it was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006 where it was nominated

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Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006 film)
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The film has been cited as a favorite by filmmaker John Waters, who presented it as his annual selection at the 2007 Maryland Film Festival. In college, 18-year-old Amy impulsively gave her dog, Rufus, eight years later, she lives a seemingly ordinary life as a schoolteacher and is engaged to nice-guy John. When John suggests complete honesty, Amy

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Bobcat Goldthwait
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He came to prominence with his stand-up specials An Evening with Bobcat Goldthwait – Share the Warmth and Bob Goldthwait – Is He Like That All the Time. And his acting roles, including Zed in the Police Academy franchise, and Maron, and several stand-up specials, including Patton Oswalt, Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time. He has also worked extensive

Trade (film)
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Trade is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner and starring Kevin Kline. It was produced by Roland Emmerich and Rosilyn Heller, the film premiered January 23,2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and opened in limited release on September 28,2007. It is based on Peter Landesmans article The Girls Next Door about sex slaves, i

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Promotional poster for the film

Marco Kreuzpaintner
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Marco Kreuzpaintner is a German film director and screenwriter. Kreuzpaintner was born March 11,1977 in Rosenheim in Bavaria and he studied History of Art in Salzburg. He is a filmmaker with a background in film, advertising. He was the assistant to Peter Lilienthal, and then assistant to Edgar Reitz in 1998, in 1999, he assumed the role of German

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Marco Kreuzpaintner, February 5, 2009.

Bella (film)
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Bella is a 2006 American drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, starring Eduardo Verastegui and Tammy Blanchard. Set in New York City, the film is about the events of one day, Bella tells the story of Nina, a New York City waitress, and her co-worker José, a cook. The kitchen of a Mexican restaurant in Manha

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Theatrical release poster

Alejandro Gomez Monteverde
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Jose Alejandro Gomez Monteverde is a Mexican film director. His first film, Bella took top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival by winning the “Peoples Choice Award”, Monteverde directed and co-wrote Little Boy, a film set during World War II, released in 2015. Monteverde married American actress Ali Landry on April 8,2006 in San M

Starting Out in the Evening
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Starting Out in the Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Andrew Wagner. The screenplay by Wagner and Fred Parnes is based on the novel of the name by Brian Morton. But the young woman is relentless, and he agrees to weekly meetings in which he slowly begins to open up to her as he reluctantly recalls his past. Slightly suspicious of He

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Original poster

Teeth (film)
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Teeth is a 2007 black comedy horror film written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. The movie stars Jess Weixler and was produced by Lichtenstein on a budget of US$2 million, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19,2007, and was distributed by Roadside Attractions for a limited release in the United States. Despite being

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theatrical release poster

Caramel (film)
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Caramel is a 2007 Lebanese film — the first feature film by Lebanese director-actress Nadine Labaki. The film premiered on May 20 at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and it ran for the Caméra dOr. Caramel was distributed in over 40 countries, easily becoming the most internationally acclaimed and exposed Lebanese film to date, Labakis film is unique f

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Poster used in Cannes 2007

Nadine Labaki
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Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress and director. In 1998, she attended a workshop in acting at the Cours Florent in Paris and she went on to direct advertisements and music videos for renowned Middle Eastern singers, for which she won several awards. In 2005, Labaki took part in the Cannes Film Festival Residence in order to write Caramel, in 2006

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Nadine Labaki

Chicago 10 (film)
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Chicago 10, Speak Your Peace is a 2007 American animated documentary written and directed by Brett Morgen that tells the story of the Chicago Eight. It also contains footage of Abbie Hoffman, David Dellinger, William Kunstler, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden, and Leonard Weinglass. The title is drawn from a quote by Rubin, who said and you can

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Promotional poster

Before the Rains
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Before the Rains is a 2007 Indian-British period drama film directed by Santosh Sivan. The film is adapted from a story from the 2001 anthology Israeli film Asphalt Zahov and it was filmed on location in Kerala, India and was released in cinemas in India, the US and the UK. Before the Rains is set in 1930s Malabar District of the Madras Presidency

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Theatrical poster

Santosh Sivan
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Santosh Sivan ASC, ISC is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor in Indian cinema. Santosh graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India and has to date completed 45 feature films and 41 documentaries and he is a founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers and is the most awarded Director of Photograp

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Santosh Sivan at his studio (2011)

The Fall (2006 film)
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The Fall is a 2006 adventure fantasy film directed by Tarsem Singh, starring Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, and Justine Waddell. It is based on the screenplay of the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho by Valeri Petrov, the film was released to theaters in 2008 and earned $3.7 million worldwide. Los Angeles,1915, stuntman Roy Walker is hospitalized, as he is b

Tarsem Singh
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Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, known professionally as Tarsem, is an Indian-American director who has worked on films, music videos, and commercials. Tarsem was born in Jalandhar, Punjab to a Punjabi Sikh family and his father was an aircraft engineer. He attended Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, Hans Raj College in Delhi and he has directed dozens of comme

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Singh at WonderCon 2011

Garden Party (film)

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Theatrical release poster

Bernard Shakey
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Neil Percival Young, OC OM, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. Young began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, in 1966, after a brief stint with the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds, he moved to Los Angeles, where he formed Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie

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Young in 1983

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The Last Waltz, Young (center on left microphone) performing with Bob Dylan and The Band, among others in 1976.

Beer for My Horses (film)
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Beer for My Horses is a 2008 American comedy film. The film stars country music entertainer Toby Keith and is based on his song by the same name, the film was co-written by Keith and Rodney Carrington and directed by Michael Salomon, who has directed numerous music videos for Keith. The film was shot in and around Las Vegas, New Mexico and it made

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Beer for My Horses

I.O.U.S.A.
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I. O. U. S. A. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Patrick Creadon. The film focuses on the shape and impact of the United States national debt, the tour was carried out through the Concord Coalition, and was known as the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour. The film competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the film w

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U.S. federal debt from 1940 to 2008, the year the documentary was released.

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Roadside attraction
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A roadside attraction is a feature along the side of a road meant to attract tourists. In general, these are places one might stop on the way to somewhere and they are frequently advertised with billboards. The modern tourist-oriented highway attraction originated as a U. S. and Western Canadian phenomenon in the 1940s to 1960s, and subsequently caught on in Australia. When long-distance road travel became practical and popular in the late 1930s, entrepreneurs began building restaurants, motels, coffee shops, cafes and more unusual businesses to attract travelers. Many of the buildings were attractions in themselves in the form of novelty architecture, depicting common objects of enormous size, with the building of the U. S. Interstate Highway System in the mid-1950s, many roadside attractions were bypassed, some remained attractive enough to divert travelers from the interstate for a brief respite and thus remain in business. The best example of change is along US Route 66

Roadside attraction
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A sign adverting a "Convict Robot Exhibition" at a small museum and shop on the side of the highway which links the city of Hobart and the former convict settlement at Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia
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Remnant of US 66 through small Texas Town

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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital

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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565

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Lionsgate
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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. doing business as Lionsgate, is an American, Canadian-domiciled entertainment & media company. The company was formed on July 10,1997, in Vancouver, British Columbia and it owns a variety of subsidiaries such as the American film production company Summit Entertainment, and Debmar-Mercury, a television syndication company acquired by Lionsgate in 2006. Giustra had recently retired as CEO from Yorkton, an investment bank, Giustra then merged Lionsgate with Toronto Stock Exchange listed Beringer Gold Corp. to take the company public. Beringers mining assets were sold off. Lionsgate then began a series of acquisitions to get into the film industry, the company bought a number of small production facilities and distributors, starting with Montreal-based Cinépix Film Properties and North Shore Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mandalay Television was acquired by Lionsgate from Peter Guber for a 4% Lionsgate stake, in 1998, Lionsgate helped Guber form Mandalay Pictures with a 45% investment in Mandalay. Lionsgate followed that up with a June purchase of International Movie Group, Inc. a bankrupt film distributor previously invested in by Guber and Yorktown Securities, iMGs CEO Peter Strauss became president of Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc. Lionsgates U. S. film & TV production & distribution subsidiary, Lions Gate Media subsidiary was also formed to produce for television. Completing its first year of operation, Lionsgate had revenue of $42.2 million with loss of $397,000, the company share price dropped to a low of $1.40. This limited the ability to make acquisitions via stock swaps. Lionsgate instead made its acquisition of Termite Art Productions, a reality-based television production company. Lionsgate created US based Avalanche Films and acquired half of Sterling Home Entertainment, again, Lionsgate registered losses in its second year of $9.3 million on revenues of $78.3 million with most of the losses were from its stake in Mandalay Pictures. Thus in the summer, Lionsgate placed its studios up for sale with no buyers, TV operations were changed to non-network hourlong series over riskier network shows and ended its relationship with Mandalay Television. The corporation sought out more capital and cash with a filing of a prospectus for the sale of preferred stock and common stock warrants. This led to Feltheimer taking over as CEO from Giustra thus the passed over Doroniuk left the company, Feltheimer increased film making including several $1 million films at Avalanche. However, Federgreen still remains one of the owners of the company and is extremely involved in the making of all their major movies. In June, Lionsgate acquired Trimark Holdings, Inc. for approximately $50 million in stock, Lionsgate continued making acquisitions during the decade to boost distribution and its film library. On December 15,2003, Lionsgate acquired Artisan Entertainment for $220 million, in 2004, Erik Nelson reacquired Termite Art and renamed it to Creative Differences

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Walk on Water (film)
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Walk on Water is an Israeli film released in 2004. It stars Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters and it was directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox. The screenplay was written by Gal Uchovsky, most of the dialogue takes place in English, although there is much in Hebrew and German. Its name derives in part from Jesus walking on water, Eyal is an agent in Mossad, the Israeli security service. He is a hitman who targets enemies of Israel and his wife has recently committed suicide, and the agency decides that he needs to take on a less challenging assignment, to find an aging Nazi war criminal and get him before God does. In order to track down the old man, Eyal poses as a guide and befriends the Nazis adult grandchildren, Axel. Pia lives on a kibbutz, an Israeli commune and her brother Axel visits her in order to convince Pia to return to Germany for their fathers seventieth birthday. It is later revealed that Pias estrangement with her parents began when she discovered that they were hiding her grandfather and she shares this information with Axel. Although he has a job to perform, Eyal truly befriends Axel, Axel and Pia are decent people who demonstrate that most Germans have gotten beyond the hatred that led to the Holocaust. They spend time together and Eyal enjoys himself, even if he would not openly admit so and his friendship with Axel allows him to display some humanity, letting down his tough-guy machismo. Eyal and Axel even take a mud bath by the Dead Sea, when the three are at dinner one night in a Tel Aviv restaurant, Axel speaks privately to the Palestinian waiter, Rafik, and finds out where the best club in town is. Later that evening, Axel, Pia, and Eyal arrive at the club, Eyal is shocked to discover that it is a gay club. He sees Axel dancing with Rafik and is taken aback, Eyal is initially disgusted and disappointed to discover that Axel is gay. He asks to be removed from the assignment, not attempting to hide his homophobia as the reason and his boss, Menachem, insists that Eyal finish the mission. Eyal visits Germany and comes to realize that Axels orientation is unimportant, during the visit, Axel runs into a group of friends, drag queens, coming off the U-bahn. A group of skinheads attack them and Eyal defends the queens, in doing so, he reveals that he is fluent in German. He tells Axel that his parents were German, leaving out that most of the Jews in his mothers region of Germany had been killed by Axels grandfather, later during the visit, Eyal runs into Menachem, whose family was also killed by the grandfathers Nazi activities. Axel invites Eyal to his fathers birthday party, the guests are uncomfortable about Eyals nationality and religion, but still polite

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ללכת על המים (aka Walk on Water)

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Eytan Fox
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Eytan Fox is an Israeli film director. Fox was born in New York City and moved with his family to Israel when he was two and his father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a leading professor of Jewish education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His mother, Sara Kaminker-Fox, was the head of the Jerusalem city council, Fox has two brothers, David and Danny. He grew up in Jerusalem, served in the army, and studied at Tel Aviv Universitys School of Film and he is openly gay and many of his films contain themes of homosexuality, as well as the effect the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has on interpersonal relationships. Fox and his partner, Gal Uchovsky, have together for 24 years. They are also collaborators, Uchovsky, a writer and journalist, is involved in much of the scriptwriting for Foxs movies. After Shirat HaSirena Florentin Baal Baal Lev Yossi & Jagger is a portrayal of the love between two young Jewish military men while completing their national service. Walk on Water takes on the topics of racism/discrimination and confronting the Nazi past of two young upperclass Germans. Lior Ashkenazi plays a Mossad assassin under cover as a tour guide, the Bubble asks the big question, What is love. Tamid oto halom released in UK and US in 2011 as Mary Lou, and starring Ido Rosenberg, Alon Levi, and Dana Frider Yossi is a sequel to Yossi & Jagger. Bananot released in US as Cupcakes Eytan Fox at the Internet Movie Database Between Sex And Country, The Films of Eytan Fox Eytan Fox Brings Israeli Films to America Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Samuel Goldwyn Films
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Samuel Goldwyn Films is an American film company which licenses, releases and distributes art-house, independent and foreign films. It was founded by Samuel Goldwyn Jr. the son of the Hollywood business magnate/mogul, the current incarnation is a successor to The Samuel Goldwyn Company. This is a list of films distributed and/or produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films, one of the films produced by the company is Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World

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Super Size Me
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Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlocks film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2,2003, Spurlock ate at McDonalds restaurants three times per day, eating every item on the chains menu at least once. Spurlock consumed an average of 20.9 megajoules or 5,000 kcal per day during the experiment, an intake of around 2,500 kcal within a healthy balanced diet is more generally recommended for a man to maintain his weight. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose the weight gained from his experiment using a vegan diet supervised by his then-girlfriend, the reason for Spurlocks investigation was the increasing spread of obesity throughout U. S. The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, a comic book related to the movie has been made with Dark Horse Comics as the publisher containing stories based on numerous cases of fast food health scares. As the film begins, Spurlock is in physically above average according to his personal trainer. He is seen by three physicians, as well as a nutritionist and a personal trainer, all of the health professionals predict the McDiet will have unwelcome effects on his body, but none expected anything too drastic, one citing the human body as being extremely adaptable. Prior to the experiment, Spurlock ate a diet but always had vegan evening meals to appease his girlfriend, Alexandra. At the beginning of the experiment, Spurlock, who stood 6 feet 2 inches tall, had a weight of 84 kilograms. Spurlock followed specific rules governing his eating habits, He must fully eat three McDonalds meals per day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner and he must consume every item on the McDonalds menu at least once over the course of the 30 days. He must only ingest items that are offered on the McDonalds menu, all outside consumption of food is prohibited. He must only Super Size the meal when offered, on February 1, Spurlock starts the month with breakfast near his home in Manhattan, where there is an average of four McDonalds locations per square mile. He aims to keep the distances he walks in line with the 5,000 steps walked per day by the average American and he experiences steadily increasing stomach discomfort during the process, and then vomits in the McDonalds parking lot. After five days Spurlock has gained 9.5 pounds and it is not long before he finds himself experiencing depression, and he claims that his bouts of depression, lethargy, and headaches could be relieved by eating a McDonalds meal. His general practitioner describes him as being addicted, at his second weigh-in, he had gained another 8 pounds, putting his weight at 203.5 pounds. By the end of the month he weighs about 210 pounds, because he could only eat McDonalds food for a month, Spurlock refused to take any medication at all. At one weigh-in Morgan lost 1 lb. from the previous weigh-in, and a nutritionist hypothesized that he had lost muscle mass, at another weigh-in, a nutritionist said that he gained 17 pounds in 12 days. Spurlocks girlfriend, Alexandra Jamieson, attests to the fact that Spurlock lost much of his energy and sex drive during his experiment

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Morgan Spurlock
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The film was his directorial debut, following his contributions as a production assistant on the features Bullets over Broadway, Léon, The Professional and Kiss of Death. Spurlocks other notable films include Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden, POM Wonderful Presents, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Comic-Con Episode IV, A Fans Hope and One Direction, This Is Us. He was the producer and star of the reality television series 30 Days. In June 2013, Spurlock became host and producer of the CNN show Morgan Spurlock Inside Man and he is also the co-founder of short-film content marketing company Cinelan, which produced the Focus Forward campaign for GE. Spurlock was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Beckley and his parents, Phyllis and Ben Spurlock, raised him as a Methodist. He has said he is of Scots-Irish and English descent, Spurlock was educated at Woodrow Wilson High School, a public high school in the city of Beckley, West Virginia, followed by New York University, from which he graduated in 1993. He is a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta, Spurlock attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley, West Virginia, graduating in 1989. He graduated with a BFA in film from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts in 1993 and he also created I Bet You Will for MTV. I Bet You Will began as a popular Internet webcast of five-minute episodes featuring ordinary people doing stunts in exchange for money. Examples include eating a jar of mayonnaise, eating a worm burrito, and taking shots of corn oil, Pepto-Bismol, lemon juice, hot sauce, cold chicken broth. The webcast was a success, with over a million hits in the first five days, MTV later bought and aired the show. The list of films that inspired Spurlock includes Brothers Keeper, Hoop Dreams, The Thin Blue Line, Roger and Me, Harlan County USA. He considers Brothers Keeper the greatest documentary of all time, Spurlocks docudrama Super Size Me was released in the U. S. on May 7,2004. This production was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary feature. The film depicts an experiment he conducted in 2003, in which he ate three McDonalds meals a day every day for 30 days. The films title derives from one of the rules of Spurlocks experiment, he would not refuse the super-size option whenever it was offered to him, the result, according to Spurlock, was a diet with twice the calories recommended by the USDA. Further, Spurlock attempted to curtail his physical activity to match the exercise habits of the average American. He was of above average health and fitness when he started the project, he gained 25 pounds, became quite puffy, Spurlocks supervising physicians noted the effects caused by his high-calorie diet—once even comparing it to a case of severe binge alcoholism

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Remember Me, My Love
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Remember Me, My Love is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Gabriele Muccino. Tagline, Some loves are never forgotten, at first glance the Ristuccia family is apparently normal and close-knit, but all of its members are hiding something. Carlo, the head of the family, would like to become a rather than continue working in an insurance company. Giulia, his wife, is a schoolteacher who aspires to become an actress, paolo is an insecure teenager who cannot successfully assert himself in front of girls whom he likes. Valentina desires to become a showgirl at any cost. This silence is broken when Carlo meets his old love Alessia, as a result, he almost ruins the family balance although Giulia tries to save the marriage

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Remember Me, My Love (Ricordati di me)

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Ladies in Lavender
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Ladies in Lavender is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Charles Dance, who based his screenplay on a short story by William J. Locke. Set in picturesque coastal Cornwall, in a fishing village in 1936, Ladies in Lavender stars Judi Dench and Maggie Smith playing the leading roles of sisters Ursula. A gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, Andrea is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm, when the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of the sisters. Holidaying artist Olga Daniloff, the sister of famed violinist Boris Daniloff, as time progresses, Olga and Andrea grow closer. Olga tells her brother of Andreas talent, and he asks to meet Andrea in London, although Andrea cares deeply for the sisters, he knows this is his chance to start a career, and he leaves with Olga without saying goodbye to the women. He later sends them a letter, along with a portrait of himself painted by Olga, the sisters travel to London to attend Andreas first public performance in Britain, while the rest of the village listens in on the wireless. William Lockes original story was first published on 26 December 1908 in Colliers magazine, Vol.42, the film marked the directorial debut of actor Charles Dance. Longtime friends Maggie Smith and Judi Dench were appearing together in a play in Londons West End when Dance first approached them about the project and they immediately accepted his offer without even reading the script they said in the film featurette Ladies In Lavender, A Fairy Tale. The film is the first English language role for German actor Daniel Brühl, filming took place in September and October 2003. Exteriors were filmed in Cadgwith, Helston, St. Ives, interiors were filmed at the Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. The films original music was written by Nigel Hess and performed by Joshua Bell, Hess received a Classical BRIT Awards nomination for Best Soundtrack Composer. Its total worldwide gross was $20,439,793 and it received its New York premiere at the 4th Annual Tribeca Film Festival. Prior to its release in the UK, the film was shown at the Taormina Film Festival and it was released as Les Dames de Cornouailles in France, Der Duft von Lavendel in Germany, Lavendelflickorna in Sweden, and Parfum de lavande in French-speaking Canada. Both Judi Dench and Maggie Smith were nominated for Best European Actress at the European Film Awards, Dench was nominated for the ALFS Award for British Actress of the Year by the London Film Critics Circle. The film was received by the critics. In his review in The New York Times, critic Stephen Holden wrote, sink into their roles as comfortably as house cats burrowing into a down quilt on a windswept, rainy night. Heralds the return of the Comfy Movie, the equivalent of a visit from a cherished

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Charles Dance
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Walter Charles Dance, OBE is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains, Charles Dance was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, the son of Eleanor, a cook, and Walter Dance, an engineer. Growing up in Plymouth, he attended Widey Technical School for Boys in Crownhill, Dance was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the mid-to-late-1970s and was in many of their productions in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Later he returned to the RSC to take the role in Coriolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon and Newcastle in 1989. He received rave reviews and a Critics Circle Best Actor award for his performance as the Oxford don C. S. Lewis in William Nicholsons Shadowlands, in the 2007 stage revival. He has also starred in many other British television dramas such as Edward the Seventh, Murder Rooms, Randall and Hopkirk, Rebecca, The Phantom of the Opera, Fingersmith and Bleak House. He also played Guy Spencer, the pro-Hitler propagandist, in the installment of Foyles War. Dance made a guest appearance on the BBC drama series Merlin as the Witchfinder Aredian and he played Havelock Vetinari in the 2010 Sky adaptation of Terry Pratchetts Going Postal. He played the role of Tywin Lannister in HBOs Game of Thrones, based on the Song of Ice, Dance was wooed for the role by the producers whilst filming Your Highness in Belfast. Dance also played Conrad Knox on the British television series Strike Back and he appeared in Paris Connections as the Russian oligarch Aleksandr Borinski. Dance made one of his earliest big screen appearances in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as evil henchman Claus. Though he turned down the opportunity to screen test for the James Bond role, in 1989 he played Bond creator Ian Fleming in Anglia Televisions dramatised biography, Goldeneye. On 30 June 2013, Dance appeared amongst other celebrities in an episode of the BBCs Top Gear as a Star in a Reasonably Priced Car for the debut of the Vauxhall Astra. Dances debut film as a writer and director was Ladies in Lavender, in 2009, he directed his own adaptation of Alice Thomas Elliss The Inn at the Edge of the World. Dance married Joanna Haythorn in 1970 and he became engaged to sculptor Eleanor Boorman in September 2010. They have a daughter, Rose, born in March 2012, Dance was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 17 June 2006. He lives in Kentish Town in north London

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Dance at the London Film and Comic Con, July 2012.

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Pretty Persuasion
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Pretty Persuasion is a 2005 American black comedy/satirical film about a 15-year-old schoolgirl who makes an allegation of sexual harassment against her drama teacher. The films tagline is, Revenge knows no mercy and it was written by Skander Halim and directed by Marcos Siega. It stars Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods and Ron Livingston and was released in the US on August 12,2005 in select theaters, kimberly Joyce is a high school student at Roxbury, a Beverly Hills school for the wealthy. She and her best friend Brittany take Randa, a new student who recently immigrated from the Middle East, the film makes use of twists and flashbacks to tell its story. But the film also makes commentary on other social issues in contemporary American culture as well. The musical score was composed by Gilad Benamram, the film deliberately does not feature any popular music songs. Similarly, the wardrobe and props do not feature contemporary branding, the film was nominated for the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. It won the German Independence Award at the 2005 Oldenburg International Film Festival, the film was not received very well by most film critics. Roger Ebert called it daring, and well-acted, but also said that it exists somewhere between comedy and satire. Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star called the film a scathing, much of it is also extremely funny. Any satire worth its salt should not be afraid to offend, James Mottram of Channel 4 opined, Hovering uncomfortably between comedy and satire, Pretty Persuasion never quite gets the balance right. Carlo Cavagna thought it a teen comedy that tries way too hard to be a dark teen comedy. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer accused the film of being an ugly, cheap attempt at satire, critic Armond White has called the film ingenious. The film has a rotten 32 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes

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Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
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Sarah Silverman, Jesus Is Magic is a 2005 comedy written by and starring Sarah Silverman, directed by Liam Lynch and distributed by Roadside Attractions. The movie is a film consisting of 72 minutes of clips taken from Silvermans previous stand-up show of the same name, interspersed with flashbacks. Silverman addresses a number of topics, including religion, AIDS, the Holocaust, race, sexism, political parties, people with disabilities, homeless people, Silverman also performs several original songs in the film. The film was released November 11,2005 in eight theatres, receiving positive reviews, it made just under $125,000 during opening weekend. Its performance led to a release in as many as 57 theatres. The movie was released on DVD on June 6,2006 in the United States, June 13 in Canada, a soundtrack CD was also released featuring most of the musical numbers, excerpts from Silvermans stand-up comedy, and several additional songs which did not appear in the film. A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote, Most of the humor in Jesus Is Magic depends on the scandal of hearing a nice, middle-class Jewish girl make jokes about rape, anal sex, the Holocaust and AIDS. But Ms. Silverman is not smashing taboos so much as she is searching for them. Sarah Silverman, Jesus Is Magic at the Internet Movie Database

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Lassie (2005 film)
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The film was directed, written, and co-produced by Charles Sturridge and is a production of Samuel Goldwyn Films. The film stars Jonathan Mason and was distributed by Roadside Attractions, filming took place in Scotland, Ireland and on the Isle of Man. The supporting cast features Peter OToole, Samantha Morton, Peter Dinklage, Edward Fox, the film was generally reviewed positively by critics, but performed poorly at the box office. The film follows Lassie on the collies 500-mile journey from the Duke of Rudlings estate in the Scottish Highlands to the Carraclough home and this is the eleventh movie about Lassie, according to the producers. It is based on Eric Knights 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, filming took place in Scotland, Ireland and on the Isle of Man. The film-critics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes recorded 93% positive reviews from 70 critics, empires Anna Smith wrote Thanks to a relatively gritty setting and an estimable adult cast, this sentimental story is rendered bearable for adults and children alike. BBCs Neil Smith said, The combination of everyones favourite canine and eye-catching Irish, Lassie, The Official Site Lassie at the Internet Movie Database Lassie at Rotten Tomatoes DR Dakota the action dog in Lassie 2005 film

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Wah-Wah (film)
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Wah-Wah is a 2005 British-French-South African drama film, written and directed by British actor Richard E. Grant and loosely based on his childhood in Swaziland. It stars Nicholas Hoult, Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, filmed and set in Swaziland, the film was first shown at the Cannes Film Market on 13 May 2005 and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 17 August 2005. It then toured to various festivals before receiving a release in the United States on 5 May 2006. Grant initially wrote the film based on his own childhood experiences after a screenwriter recommended he write a screenplay after reading his memoirs of his Withnail. The first meeting with a producer took place in 1999 and took almost seven years to complete, Grant initially had trouble securing actors, Rachel Weisz, Toni Collette, Meg Ryan, Emmanuelle Béart, Ralph Fiennes and Jeremy Irons all turned down roles. Julie Walters was eventually the first actor to be signed, Grant intended for the part of Ralph to be played by two actors but the casting director, Celestia Fox, insisted on one actor. During the casting sessions, Grant noticed the similarity between Zac Fox and Nicholas Hoult and persuaded Celestia Fox to cast them. The part of the father was meant to be younger but, as all the actors asked in that age range passed on the role, an older actor was chosen. After the original left the project due to a career change, Grant was approached by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar to produce the project. The film was the first to have shot in Swaziland. Filming began in July 2004 and took place over seven weeks and post-production took place in England, Wah-Wah received its premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and received a special Toronto International Film Festival screening in September 2005. Grant mentioned in subsequent interviews that she was a control freak out of control, BBC Movies said it was superbly performed and fluently shot, but lamented its uninteresting subject. David Hughes of Empire magazine said that the film was an unforced, engaging, time Out noted that Gabriel Byrne gives a great performance as Ralph’s troubled father, Harry, and Miranda Richardson and Emily Watson are enjoyable as Harry’s wife and American lover. Emotional, melodramatic and sentimental, the film wears its heart on its sleeve. Roger Ebert was less praising, noting that he admired the movie and was happy to see it, the film received a limited release and only grossed $2.8 million worldwide on a $7 million budget. Wah Wah – official site Wah-Wah at the Internet Movie Database Richard E. Grant about Wah-Wah interview on ABCs Enough Rope

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Richard E. Grant
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Richard E. Grant is a Swazi-English actor, screenwriter, director and perfumier. Grant was born Richard Grant Esterhuysen in Mbabane, Swaziland and his father, Henrik Esterhuysen, was head of education for the British government administration in the British Protectorate of Swaziland. His father had English and Dutch/Afrikaner ancestry and his mother was of English, as a boy, Grant went to primary school at St Marks, a local government school in Mbabane that had only recently become racially integrated. When Grant was ten years old, he witnessed his mother commit adultery on the seat of a car with his fathers best friend. This event inspired Grant to keep a diary, which he has continued to do ever since. Grant wears a watch on each wrist, one given to him by his dying father and he is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Swaziland. Grant attended secondary school at Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa, an independent school just outside Mbabane, Grant studied English and drama at the University of Cape Town. He adopted his name when he moved to Britain as an adult. Grant was a member of the Space Theatre Company in Cape Town before moving to London in 1982 and he later stated, I grew up in Swaziland when it was mired in a 1960s sensibility. The kind of English spoken where I grew up was a period English sound, charles Sturridge, who directed Brideshead Revisited for TV, said, you speak English like someone from the 1950s. Grants first film role was the perpetually inebriated title character in Withnail and I, in 1995, Grant starred as the titular character in Peter Capaldis short film Franz Kafkas Its a Wonderful Life. The film won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Grant has twice portrayed the Doctor from Doctor Who, both outside the main continuity. In the comedy sketch Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death, he portrayed a version of the Tenth Doctor and he also voiced a version of the Ninth Doctor for the BBC original animated webcast Scream of the Shalka. The latter had intended to be the official Ninth Doctor prior the revival of the TV series, in August,2012, the BBC announced that Grant would join the cast of Doctor Who for The Snowmen, in which he plays a villain, Dr. Walter Simeon. Grant reprises the role in the series 7 finale, The Name of the Doctor, on 1 December 2006, Grant turned real life investigator when, with the help of BBC Newsnight, he exposed a $98 million scam to sell a bogus AIDS cure. Grant appeared as The Voice in 2+2+2 at American Nights at The Kings Head Theatre, from 3 to 29 July 2007, and in 2008 co-starred in the London-based comedy Filth and Wisdom. In 2008, he made his theatre debut with Opera Australia, playing the role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, at the Theatre Royal. He played Alain Reille in Yasmina Rezas one-act play God of Carnage at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and subsequently at Cheltenham, Canterbury, Richmond, Brighton and Milton Keynes

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The Puffy Chair
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The Puffy Chair is a 2005 road movie mumblecore, film written and directed by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass. It stars Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton and Rhett Wilkins, the film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005, and went onto screen at South by Southwest in March 2005, winning the Audience Award. The film was released on June 2,2006, by Netflix, the film concerns the relationships between men, women, brothers, mothers, fathers and friends. The protagonist discovers on eBay a replica of a chair that was used by his father long ago. The resulting road trip to pick up and deliver the chair as a present for the father in Atlanta takes interesting twists. All of the actors were paid $100 a day, with extensive improvisation used. It was shot on Panasonic AG-DVX100, the film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. Shortly after, Netflix and Roadside Attractions acquired distribution rights to the film, the film went onto screen at South by Southwest on March 11,2005. The film won the Audience Award at the festival, the film was released in a limited release on June 2,2006. The Puffy Chair received positive reviews from film critics and it holds a 76% Fresh rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 51 reviews, with an average rating of 6. 8/10. The critical consensus reads, First-timer Duplass offers a realistic and thoughtful romantic comedy, on Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 73 out of 100 based on 17 critics, indicating Generally favorable reviews. Pic is a human comedy of manners that, even when it falters. Warm Sundance reception suggests dirt-cheap pic could develop a strong word-of-mouth following, nick Schager of SlantMagazine. com gave the film 3. The Puffy Chair at the Internet Movie Database The Puffy Chair at AllMovie Wired magazine, Netflix Presents

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The Puffy Chair

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Jay Duplass
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Lawrence Jay Duplass is an American film director and actor. Widely known for his films The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home, made in collaboration with his younger brother, Duplass stars in the Amazon Video comedy-drama series Transparent, and co-created the HBO comedy-drama series Togetherness. Duplass was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Cynthia and he was raised in a Catholic family, and attended Jesuit High School. Duplass graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with an MFA in film, Duplass is of part Cajun ancestry. Duplass attributes much of his and his brothers love for film to his appreciation for Raising Arizona, in an interview with Robert K. Elder for The Film That Changed My Life, Duplass speculates on what might have happened had he not seen the film in his youth. I probably wouldnt be making movies—seriously and it held over for so long. It really was the root of everything that Mark and I always hold ourselves to in making movies and that is to say that Raising Arizona is the most inspired movie that I have ever seen. In 2014, he starred as Josh Pfefferman in the Amazon Prime Original Comedy-Drama Series Transparent, alongside Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker and Judith Light. The series was met with critical acclaim, earning 11 Primetime Emmy nominations, including nominations for Best Comedy Series. In the second season of the show, Duplass role became more prominent, prior to Transparent, Duplass had never acted in a featured part. He was talking with director Jill Soloway at a party about the difficulty she was having finding an actor to play what would end up being Duplass role. After suggesting many actors for the part to Soloway, Soloway turned to Duplass and told him it was him, Jay Duplass at the Internet Movie Database Interview with Jay and Mark Duplass on Baghead at IFC. com

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Duplass in October 2011

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Mark Duplass
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Mark David Duplass is an American film director, film producer, actor, musician, and screenwriter. He is the brother of director, writer, and actor Jay Duplass, together, the brothers started the film production company Duplass Brothers Productions, and have directed films such as The Puffy Chair, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon. Mark and Jay co-created the HBO television series Togetherness in 2015 and he is married to his The League co-star Katie Aselton. Duplass was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Cynthia and he was raised as a Roman Catholic, and attended Jesuit High School, University of Texas at Austin, and City University of New York-City College. Duplass is of part Cajun ancestry, Duplass is married to his The League co-star, Katie Aselton. They have two daughters, Molly and Ora Duplass and he was also the lead singer of the rock band Volcano, Im Still Excited. Duplass has written, directed, and produced feature films with his brother Jay Duplass. In 2005, he wrote and produced The Puffy Chair with his brother and their films Jeff, Who Lives at Home and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon were released in 2012. He stars in the FX comedy television series The League, with his wife, in 2015, the HBO series Togetherness debuted, which was created by and stars Duplass. That same year, Duplass co-starred with Evan Peters and Olivia Wilde in David Gelbs thriller film The Lazarus Effect. Best Screenplay for The Puffy Chair at the BendFilm Festival Mark Duplass at the Internet Movie Database Mark Duplass at Rotten Tomatoes Interview with Jay and Mark Duplass on Baghead at IFC. com

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Duplass in October 2011

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Michael Winterbottom
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Not to be confused with the classical scholar Michael Winterbottom. Michael Winterbottom is an English filmmaker and he began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films—Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People—have competed for the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, Winterbottom was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. Winterbottoms television directing career began with a documentary about Ingmar Bergman, in 1991 he directed episodes of various British TV shows, including the 4-part childrens series Time Riders and an episode of Boon. In 1992 he directed the television film Under the Sun about a young British woman traveling in Greece and he next directed the 1994 mini-series Family, written by Roddy Doyle. Each of four episodes focused on one member of a working-class Dublin family and it was this series that first brought Winterbottom to the attention of filmgoers, when it was edited down into a feature and shown at festivals. His final early television project was a 1995 episode of the documentary series Cinema Europe, The Other Hollywood, butterfly Kiss Winterbottoms 1995 cinematic debut firmly established his intense visual sense, naturalistic style and compelling use of pop songs to reinforce narrative. The story of a mentally unbalanced lesbian serial killer and her submissive lover/accomplice falling in love as they slaughter their way across the motorways of Northern England and it found only a limited release. Go Now That same year, he reunited with Jimmy McGovern for the BBC television film Go Now, focusing on the turmoil this causes the couple, the film was given a theatrical release in many countries, including the United States. It was not Winterbottoms first time approaching the work, having filmed the pig slaughter sequence at film school. Starring Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet, Jude brought Winterbottom wider recognition, his first screening at Cannes and numerous Hollywood offers, all of which he eventually turned down. The film is based on the story of a British reporter, Michael Nicholson. I Want You Winterbottoms next two films both had difficulties and were not widely seen. I Want You is a neo-noir sex thriller set in a decaying British seaside resort town, starring Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola, it was shot in bold primary colors by the Polish cinematographer Slawomir Idziak and was inspired by the Elvis Costello song of the same name. Idziak won an Honourable Mention award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival for his work on the film, Wonderland 1999s Wonderland marked a decided shift in style for Winterbottom, with its loose, handheld photography and naturalistic, often improvised dialogue which drew comparisons to Robert Altman. Featuring Gina McKee, Shirley Henderson, John Simm, Ian Hart and Stuart Townsend, the disparate elements are tied together by an orchestral score by minimalist composer Michael Nyman, who would become a frequent collaborator with Winterbottom. The Claim Winterbottom followed that project up with his biggest budgeted film, The Claim, shot with a budget of $20 million in the wilds of Canada, it was not a financial success and proved an ordeal to make, with Winterbottom himself getting frostbite. The production had previously been ready to shoot in Spain, with sets already built, as much an ode to the city of Manchester as the story of the contemporary musical world, the film stars Steve Coogan as broadcaster/music-mogul Tony Wilson

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Michael Winterbottom, 2009

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Boynton Beach Club
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Boynton Beach Club is a 2005 film directed by Susan Seidelman, a romantic comedy produced by her and her mother Florence. Based on experiences of Florence and her widowed friend David Cramer at an adult enclave in Boynton Beach, marilyn is a woman unexpectedly plunged into grief when her otherwise healthy husband is killed by a woman backing her car out of a driveway. She is introduced to the Boynton Beach Bereavement Club by Lois, meanwhile, Harry tutors the newly widowed Jack in the related skills of cooking and courtship. Harry considers himself a man, but his confidence is temporarily shaken when an Internet dream date turns out to be a prostitute. Jack eventually re-enters the dating scene, regaining his confidence with the assistance of Sandy. Lois herself begins dating the relatively younger Donald, who does not turn out to be the eligible bachelor he seems. It was then released to theaters in South Florida on March 17,2006 and wider on August 4, playing in six states, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri, Arizona, the films working title was The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club. The New York Times, p. B10, Crazy Mixed-Up Teenagers Who Are All Well Past 60 Lovece, film Journal International Boynton Beach Club at the Internet Movie Database

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Susan Seidelman
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Susan Seidelman is an American film director, producer and writer. She came to prominence in the 1980s with Smithereens, the first American independent feature to be screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and her next feature Desperately Seeking Susan co-starred Madonna in her first film. She-Devil co-starred Roseanne Barr in her first feature-film role and Meryl Streep in her first starring film role. Seidelmans subsequent films mix comedy with drama, blending genres and pop-cultural references with a focus on women protagonists and she also works in television and directed the pilot episode of Sex and the City. Seidelman was raised in a suburb of Philadelphia, the oldest daughter of a hardware manufacturer and she graduated from Abington Senior High School in 1969, and went on to study fashion and arts at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Her first foray into movie-making at New York University resulted in a Student Academy Award Nomination for her short film about a housewifes affair. Seidelman earned an MFA from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts and is a professor in the schools film department. In 1982, Seidelman made her debut with Smithereens, a bleak. It was shot on 16mm for $40,000 on location, at times guerrilla style on the streets, Smithereens captured the look of the post-punk music scene and was the first American independent film to be selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. With recognition from Cannes, Seidelman became a member of the first wave of 80s-era independent filmmakers in the American cinema. Seidelman encouraged her producers to cast Madonna, who was a neighbor of hers with no acting experience, believing she would lend downtown authenticity, seidelmans subsequent movies of the 1980s were Making Mr. In 1994 Seidelman and screenwriter Jonathan Brett received an Academy Award nomination for a film they co-wrote. The film was part of the series Erotic Tales produced by Regina Ziegler and was screened at both the Cannes Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival, in the same year Seidelman was a member of the jury at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2001, Seidelman returned to films with Gaudi Afternoon. The screenplay by James Myhre was based on the book Gaudi Afternoon and its one of the first movies to deal with sexuality and the aging Baby Boomer generation and had a theatrical run and acclaim at U. S. film festivals. The ensemble cast features studio veterans Brenda Vaccaro, Dyan Cannon, Sally Kellerman, Joseph Bologna, Michael Nouri, seidelmans next film Musical Chairs, opened in limited release in 2011. The story is set in the South Bronx and Manhattan and revolves around a couple taking part in a ballroom dancing competition after the woman becomes disabled. It stars Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Wanda Sykes, Virginia Madsen, Camryn Manheim, and Eric Roberts

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Seidelman directing in 2004

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Come Early Morning
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Come Early Morning is a 2006 film starring Ashley Judd and Jeffrey Donovan. It marked the debut of Joey Lauren Adams. The movie was shot throughout the metropolitan Little Rock, Arkansas area including Pulaski Heights and it premiered for wide release in Little Rock on December 14,2006. Through her grandmother, she finds out that her father, a shy man who has nothing to say to her, is back in town, during a visit to her local bar, called The Forge, she runs into a woman who slept with her father. A brawl begins and she is rescued by Cal Percell, a new guy in town and she attends church with her father on Sunday morning with a beaten up face. Carting around a jukebox she bought from the bar, she has a beer with Cal and she kisses him sober, but still has demons to confront. She has sex with him that night and tries to leave the morning without him noticing but he wakes up. Eventually she apologizes. com and a score of 64 on Metacritic Reviewers found Adams directing to be a good debut, come Early Morning at the Internet Movie Database

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Joey Lauren Adams
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Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and director who has appeared in more than 40 films. She began her career in 1977 with a small role in Exorcist II. From there she began to find larger roles, in 1991, she appeared in Top of the Heap, the 100th episode of Married. With Children, and subsequently starred in its short-lived spinoff, in 1993, Adams landed her first major film role as Simone in Richard Linklaters Dazed and Confused. The same year, she appeared in the Saturday Night Live spinoff film Coneheads as one of Connie Coneheads friends, two years later, Adams appeared in Mallrats, written and directed by Kevin Smith. The two started dating during the films post-production, and their relationship provided the inspiration for Smiths next film, the relationship did not last long but ended on friendly terms. Meanwhile, in 1996, while Smith was finalizing the script for Chasing Amy, Adams was cast in the slapstick comedy Bio-Dome, Adams played the role of Monique, Bud Macintoshs girlfriend. In 1997s Chasing Amy, Adams played the role of Alyssa Jones. Later, Smith would describe Chasing Amy as a sort of penance/valentine, in addition to her acting work on the film, Adams wrote and performed the song Alive for the films soundtrack. From there, Adams was originally slated to play the lead in Smiths next film, 1999s Dogma. In both of these appearances, Adams reprises the Alyssa Jones role and her post-Smith projects included playing a spunky veterinarians assistant who falls in love with a single father in 1998s A Cool, Dry Place. The following year, Adams appeared in her first big-budget Hollywood release and she then went on to appear in many smaller films, including Beautiful and In the Shadows. In 2005, she had a guest role in an episode of the TV series Veronica Mars, also in 2006, Adams released her directorial debut film, Come Early Morning, starring Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson and Laura Prepon. The film, shot on location in Little Rock, Arkansas, was selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, in 2006, she, along with Lian Lunson and Nicole Holofcener, was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award. On November 24,2009, Interscope Records released Adams directorial debut for a video entitled Belle of the Boulevard by Dashboard Confessional. Adams returned to TV in March 2010, on the Showtime series The United States of Tara and she appeared in six episodes as Pammy, a barmaid who falls for Buck, one of the title characters alternate personalities. Regarding her unique voice she has commented, Its not a normal voice and it doesnt fit into peoples preconceptions about what a womans voice should sound like. My mom doesnt think I have a voice, though

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Adams at the 2015 Wizard World Cleveland

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Amazing Grace (2006 film)
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The title is a reference to the hymn Amazing Grace. The film also recounts the experiences of John Newton as a crewman on a ship and subsequent religious conversion. Newton is portrayed as an influence on Wilberforce and the abolition movement. In 1796, William Wilberforce is severely ill and taking a holiday in Bath, Somerset, with his cousin. It is here that William is introduced to his future wife, although he initially resists any romantic overtures, she convinces him to relate the story of his career. The story flashes back 15 years to 1782, and William recounts the events led him to where he is now. Beginning as a young, ambitious, and popular Member of Parliament, he experiences a religious enlightenment and his conviction in the cause deepens following a meeting with his former mentor John Newton who is said to live in the company of 20,000 ghosts. As a former ship captain turned Christian, he deeply regrets his past life. Newton urges William to take up the cause, Pitt becomes Prime Minister and William becomes a key supporter and confidant. Pitt gives William the opportunity to present a bill before the house outlawing the slave trade, Williams passionate campaigning leads him to become highly unpopular in the House of Commons. He is opposed by a coalition of MPs representing vested interests of the trade in London, Bristol, Glasgow, and Liverpool led by Banastre Tarleton. Despite popular support and the assistance of an ally in the form of Charles James Fox. Afterward, the film portrays Pitt as one of his few friends and allies remaining in Parliament, Pitt, now facing the stresses of leading a shaky coalition during the French Revolutionary Wars, tells William that his cause must now wait for a more stable political climate. William keeps up the fight but after years of failure he is exhausted and frustrated that he was unable to change anything in the government. Believing his lifes work has been in vain, he becomes physically ill, having virtually given up hope, William considers leaving politics forever. Barbara convinces him to keep fighting because there is no person who is willing or able to do so. A few days afterward, William and Barbara marry, several years pass with no further success. Williams wife and new children provide him with the support and strength needed to carry on the fight, finally, with a renewed hope for success William devises a backdoor method of slowly weakening the slave trade through seemingly innocuous legislation

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Michael Apted
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Michael David Apted, CMG is an English director, producer, writer and actor. He is one of the most prolific British film directors of his generation, and directed the Up Series of documentaries, on 29 June 2003 he was elected president of the Directors Guild of America. He returned to television, directing the first three episodes of the TV series Rome, Apted directed Amazing Grace which premiered at the closing of the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael, Apted was born to a middle-class family in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, the son of Frances Amelia and Ronald William Apted, who worked for an insurance company. Michael Apted secured a scholarship to attend City of London School and then to study law, Michael Apted married Paige Simpson, his third wife, in January 2014. Apted is divorced from his wife, the screenwriter Dana Stevens, with whom he has a 12-year-old son. From his first marriage to Jo Apted he had two sons, Paul and Jim, Paul Apted was a sound editor who worked on movies such as The Wolverine, and died on 4 July 2014 from colon cancer. In 2007 Apted become a father for the time to a girl, Lily Mellis. He began his career in television as a trainee at Granada Television in Manchester. One of his first projects at Granada would become his best known, the Up Series, as a researcher and assistant to Canadian director Paul Almond, Apted was involved in selecting the children. Though it began as a documentary, the series has become an institution, revisiting the subjects every seven years. It follows Apteds thesis that the British class system remains largely in place, the series looks at the lives of this sample of British people over the years, the latest instalment,56 Up, was produced in 2012. It won a Peabody Award in 2012 for its creator’s patience, during his seven-year stay at Granada, Apted also directed a number of episodes of Coronation Street, then written by Jack Rosenthal. Apted and Rosenthal went on to collaborate on a number of television and film projects including the pilot episodes for The Dustbinmen. They worked together again in 1982 for the TV movie Ptang, Yang, Kipperbang, in 1976 he directed a play in the Granada TV Series Laurence Olivier Presents. The episode was The Collection by Harold Pinter, the play starred Laurence Olivier, Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates and Helen Mirren. Michael Apted used his idea from the Up Series a second time in Married in America, the idea is to explore a subject and then return to the subject in a subsequent film to tell a more complete story. For his work in television, Apted has won several British Academy Awards, Coronation Street Haunted Theres a hole in your dustbin, Delilah – written by Jack Rosenthal The Dustbinmen Big Breadwinner Hog The Lovers Another Sunday and Sweet F. A

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Lonely Hearts (2006 film)
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Lonely Hearts is a 2006 American film directed and written by Todd Robinson. It is based on the story of the notorious Lonely Hearts Killers of the 1940s, Martha Beck. The story of Beck and Fernandez was also the subject of the 1970 film The Honeymoon Killers, directed by Leonard Kastle, Raymond Fernandez is a con man who meets single, rich women through personal ads. Upon meeting Martha Beck, he and Beck decide to join forces, the two begin traveling the country, eventually murdering at least 12 women who responded to their ads. Detective Robinson and Detective Hildebrandt are the detectives who bring the couple to justice. Portions were filmed in the historic Riverside district west of Downtown, while additional shooting occurred in nearby Fernandina, several scenes were shot in the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington. Shots of the fireplace and Peacock Lounge can be seen in the background. Jacksonville competed with Orlando and Ocala, Florida, and the state of Louisiana for the film, the film crew consisted of 218 local technicians, actors, and actresses, and 833 extras who generated a $3.28 million influx to the region. Lonely Hearts premiered in the U. S. at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 30,2006, following this the film had a screening at the Jacksonville Film Festival on May 18,2006. The film was given a staggered release internationally throughout the quarter of 2006. Lonely Hearts was scheduled to be given a release by Roadside Attractions in the U. S. on April 13,2007. It was available to watch on Clickstar on-demand shortly after its domestic release, the film earned $188,565 in the United States and Canada, and $2,330,589 in the rest of the world, for a combined gross of $2,519,154. Critical reaction was mixed, and the film has a 49% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the Region One DVD was released by Sony on July 31,2007, although it was available for rental in several countries since late 2006

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Lonely Hearts

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Fido (film)
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Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton. It was produced by Blake Corbet, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Trent Carlson and Kevin Eastwood of Anagram Pictures, the film takes place in a 1950s-esque alternate universe where radiation from space has turned the dead into zombies. This resulted in the Zombie Wars, where humanity battled zombies to prevent a zombie apocalypse, the radiation still plagues humanity, as all those who die after the original contamination turn into the undead, unless the dead body is disposed of by decapitation or cremation. In order to continue living normal lives, communities are fenced with the help of a corporation named ZomCon. ZomCon provides collars with accompanying remote controls to control the zombies hunger for flesh so as to use them as slaves or servants. In the town of Willard housewife Helen Robinson buys a zombie in spite of her husband Bills zombie phobia and their son, Timmy, befriends the zombie, naming him Fido. One day, Fidos collar malfunctions and he kills their next door neighbor, Timmy kills the zombified neighbor later, but not before she kills and infects another person, causing a small outbreak. ZomCon security forces quell the situation and then investigate what caused the outbreak, when a pair of local bullies are blamed for the missing neighbor, they capture Fido and Timmy. Fido escapes and runs to find Helen, who comes and rescues Timmy from the bullies, several days later, the neighbors body is found and the murder is traced back to Fido, who is taken away to ZomCon where the public is told he will be destroyed. Timmy learns through Cindy Bottoms, daughter of Jonathan Bottoms, ZomCons abusive security chief, Bill comes to the rescue and is killed by Mr. Bottoms, who in turn is killed by Fido. Timmy is set free and the news media propagandizes that the ZomCon security breach was the fault of rednecks who venture out into the zone to hunt zombies for fun. Helen finally learns not to belittle Bills bad experiences from the Zombie Wars by paying for a funeral in order to prevent his zombification. The film ends with Fido as a father and husband, Timmy, Helen. They, along with a few neighbors happily enjoy their new lives together. Director Andrew Currie wanted to make a film in order to make the result less predictable. Currie was influenced by Lassie Come Home, The Night of the Hunter, Douglas Sirk films of the 1950s, Peyton Place, the script was originally written in 1994, but creative differences kept it tied up. Eventually, Currie optioned it through his company and completed the picture. The film was completely storyboarded prior to filming, Fido premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was the Opening Canadian Gala film

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Colma: The Musical
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Colma, The Musical is a 2006 American musical independent film directed by Richard Wong and written by H. P. Along the way, they learn what to hold on to. The film features 13 songs all written and produced by H. P, Colma, The Musical was released through Roadside Attractions in partnership with Lions Gate Entertainment. The film premiered March 21,2006 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, after a year of touring the film festival circuit and winning three Special Jury Prizes, Colma, The Musical was theatrically released on June 22,2007. The film follows three teenagers, Billy, Rodel, and Maribel, and their exploits only weeks after graduating high school. After Billy decides to audition for the musical, he meets a college student, Tara. Billys ambition expectedly puts a strain on his relationships with his best friends, Rodel, meanwhile, struggles with coming out of the closet to his single father, while Maribel struggles to figure out what to do next in life. When Wong listened to a track from Mendozas concept album, he asked Mendoza how long it would take to turn it into a script, after seven days, a first draft was born, Mendoza flew from Philadelphia to San Francisco and the plans were set in motion. After 18 days of shooting and several months of editing, a film was made for a budget of roughly $15,000. The film was distributed by Roadside Attractions theatrically on June 22,2007, the DVD was released on November 20,2007 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment with deleted scenes and an audio commentary by director Richard Wong and writer H. P. The film received favorable reviews and the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes shows Colma. Colma, The Musical premiered at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the premiere was held at the AMC Kabuki 8 in its 700-seat house which was packed with people who knew nothing about the filmmakers, but possibly appeared based on the title of the film alone. The film was praised by young Asian Americans who identified with the lost, if a little wayward, negative reviews came from the Village Voice with Julia Wallace saying its unfortunate that Colma pays so little attention to Colma, it may as well be set anywhere. While Kyle Smith of the New York Post says The songs sound like they were recorded on a toy synthesizer in someones basement, and neither of the two male leads can sing. Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle likens the film to American Graffiti and Diner, while Jurgen Fauth of About. com compared the film to Mallrats, Ghost World, and Once. P. Mendoza Official website Colma, The Musical at the Internet Movie Database Colma, The Musical at Box Office Mojo Interview with director Richard Wong

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Colma: The Musical

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Right at Your Door
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Right at Your Door is a 2006 American thriller film about a couple and follows the events surrounding them when multiple dirty bombs detonate in Los Angeles. Chris Gorak both wrote the screenplay and directed the film in his writing and directorial debuts and it was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006 where it was nominated for Cinematography Award and the Grand Jury Prize, winning the Cinematography award. Consequently, the rights for the film were acquired by Lions Gate for nearly $3 million. The film opens with Brad, a musician, making coffee for his wife, Lexi. She leaves for work and Brad is left home alone, over the radio, he hears that several suspected dirty bombs have been detonated across Los Angeles. He exits his house and sees large amounts of rising from the city. Brad gets into his car and drives to the city to find Lexi, Brad tries to contact her through her cell phone, but only receives a busy signal. He soon finds that all now have police blockades. An ash-covered car is stopped by the police, one officer notices Brad watching from inside his car and goes over to him to tell him to go back home. The police officers aim their weapons at the driver as he gets out and he ignores their warning and is shot down by the police. Brad decides to leave and go home when he encounters a small boy called Timmy. Brad tells him to run home, and continues to his house, once home, Brad sees Alvaro, in the house. Alvaro asks Brad if he can stay with him as there is no one at the house where he was working. Brad and Alvaro then proceed to seal up the house with duct tape, as it becomes increasingly more obvious that Lexi might not come home, he takes some of Lexis clothes and leaves them outside the back door with some food and water. Radio newscasts claim that the bombs contained several toxins and a viral strain. Lexi has been involved in a car crash but is still alive and she walks home, still covered in the dust. Brad, who sees her, realizes she could infect both himself and Alvaro so he not let her in. Lexi becomes desperate after being locked out and she loses her temper and throws her cell phone at one of the door panes, breaking it

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Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006 film)
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The film has been cited as a favorite by filmmaker John Waters, who presented it as his annual selection at the 2007 Maryland Film Festival. In college, 18-year-old Amy impulsively gave her dog, Rufus, eight years later, she lives a seemingly ordinary life as a schoolteacher and is engaged to nice-guy John. When John suggests complete honesty, Amy lies and tells him that she had an experience with her best friend Linda. On a trip to her parents house, Amy finally relents to Johns badgering and tells him. The next morning, Dougie, Amys drug addict brother who had overheard the conversation, spills the beans at the breakfast table and, much to her parents shock, Amy and John leave as her father will not speak to her and her mother says that she is ashamed. Once back, Amy and Johns relationship is strained, despite all their attempts to fix things, one night while drunk, John calls her a dog-blowing cunt and Amy decides to leave. She shacks up with Linda and her boyfriend Carl, but leaves due to their noisy lovemaking, with the help of her co-worker Ed, Amy finds a new apartment and begins a relationship with Ed after he learns that his wife has been cheating on him. After Amys mother dies of an aneurysm, Amy returns home and reconciles with her father, Amy and Ed visit Dougie in prison to inform him of their mothers death. He instantly begins to blame Amy, who leaves quickly before Ed can figure out what Dougie is trying to say, some time later, Ed and his wife are trying to work things out and Amy realizes her feelings for Ed. As it doesnt work out between Ed and his wife, he and Amy become a couple, Ed thinks hes discovered Amys secret, she was pregnant and engaged to John, but got an abortion and her parents were incensed. Amy decides to go with the lie, thus letting sleeping dogs lie, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 65% approval rating with an average rating of 6. 2/10 based on 51 reviews. The websites consensus reads, Though Sleeping Dogs Lie treats its subject and characters humanely, its unable to overcome the low-budget production and Bobcat Goldthwaits pedestrian directing. Sleeping Dogs Lie at the Internet Movie Database Sleeping Dogs Lie at Box Office Mojo Sleeping Dogs Lie at Rotten Tomatoes Sleeping Dogs Lie at Metacritic Interview with Bobcat Goldthwait

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Bobcat Goldthwait
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He came to prominence with his stand-up specials An Evening with Bobcat Goldthwait – Share the Warmth and Bob Goldthwait – Is He Like That All the Time. And his acting roles, including Zed in the Police Academy franchise, and Maron, and several stand-up specials, including Patton Oswalt, Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time. He has also worked extensively as a actor, with voice roles in Capitol Critters, Hercules. Goldthwait was born Robert Francis Goldthwait on May 26,1962 in Syracuse, New York, the son of Kathleen Ann, a department store employee, and Thomas Lincoln Goldthwait and he was raised in a Catholic working-class family. At an early age, Goldthwait decided on a career as a comedian and was performing professionally while still in school at age 15. He attended St. Matthews grammar school in East Syracuse, New York, in 1980, they graduated together from Bishop Grimes Junior/Senior High School in East Syracuse, New York. They formed a troupe with Tom Nettle called the Generic Comics. Although nicknamed Bobcat and Tomcat, they did not appear as a team together. Early in his career, Goldthwait also co-wrote with Martin Olson and he became known for his unique brand of comedy, which combines elements of political satire and often bizarre or somewhat unsettling black comedy. He released a one-hour stand-up special in 2011 You Dont Look the Same Either, Goldthwait and Robin Williams appeared on the same bill together, but not as a comedy team, using the names Jack Cheese and Marty Fromage. Goldthwait used the name Jack Cheese when he appeared in Tapeheads, Goldthwait has appeared in several films. His first major role was Zed in the Police Academy franchise and he starred in One Crazy Summer, Burglar, Scrooged and Hot to Trot. In 1992, Goldthwait directed, wrote, and starred in Shakes the Clown and he also made a cameo appearance as an insane writer in Radioland Murders. In 1985, Goldthwait appeared in Twisted Sisters official video to Leader of the Pack and Be Chrool to Your Scuel from Come Out and he also appeared in a promo video for the bands album In Utero and once fooled an interviewer during a phone interview, impersonating Dave Grohl. As a guest on one of the last episodes of The Arsenio Hall Show and he stood on the sets couch, spray-painted Paramount Sucks on a glass wall, knocked over some video equipment, then threw cushions from the couch into the audience. He began directing Jimmy Kimmel Live. in 2004, while there, ratings for the show increased to over 2 million viewers per night, and jumped 50% with teens, however, in May 2006 Goldthwait left to pursue his film career. Goldthwait maintains contact with Kimmel and still directs for television and film and he returned to directing segments for Jimmy Kimmel Live. in the summer of 2007. In 1992, Goldthwait appeared as a guest-co-host of the episode of The Ben Stiller Show

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Trade (film)
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Trade is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner and starring Kevin Kline. It was produced by Roland Emmerich and Rosilyn Heller, the film premiered January 23,2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and opened in limited release on September 28,2007. It is based on Peter Landesmans article The Girls Next Door about sex slaves, in a poor family in Mexico City, Adriana celebrates her 13th birthday, and is happy about the bicycle her 17-year-old brother Jorge gives her. Their mother suspects Jorge has got the money for the present in a dishonest way, indeed, Jorge lures a tourist into a quiet street pretending to bring him to a prostitute, and with two friends rob the man by threatening him with guns. After the tourist complies, the three carry out an execution, revealing that the guns are only water guns. Against her mothers order, Adriana sneaks out to ride her new bike. When she notices a car following her, she tries to get away, but is captured and taken to the place where Veronica, several Latin American women, the gang leader pushes Veronica to bed as his henchman begins to videotape. Veronica tries to back but is overpowered. As Veronica is being raped, she flashes back and realizes how the traders had conspired and arranged the entire trip, Jorge sees a boy riding the bicycle he has given to Adriana, suspects that he has stolen it, and stops him. The boy says he has found the bike on the street and her things still on the street indicate that she was kidnapped. Jorge asks his friends to help him find her, but when an adult adviser tells the boys the kidnappers belong to a globally operating Russian gangster network. Jorge finds out that the sell their victims as sex slaves through a connection in New Jersey. While Jorge asks people if they have seen his sister, he sees her among the victims as they are hurried into a truck by the kidnappers. He steals his friends car and uses it to follow the kidnappers, as he approaches the border, he sees the truck. Two policemen approach the truck and allow them to cross, in exchange for cash, one of the police is allowed to choose a victim to rape, and Veronica is chosen. The gangster evacuates everyone from the truck except for the policeman, Jorge manages to follow the van to Juárez, but then loses track of it. Adriana, Veronica and the Thai boy are smuggled into the US, the gang members keep the kidnapped people from telling the police that they were kidnapped by threatening to harm their families. The kidnappers and victims are sent back to Mexico, after which they sneak into the US again, when Jorge finally finds the house where the victims were kept, they are already gone

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Marco Kreuzpaintner
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Marco Kreuzpaintner is a German film director and screenwriter. Kreuzpaintner was born March 11,1977 in Rosenheim in Bavaria and he studied History of Art in Salzburg. He is a filmmaker with a background in film, advertising. He was the assistant to Peter Lilienthal, and then assistant to Edgar Reitz in 1998, in 1999, he assumed the role of German dubbing assistant for the Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut. In the same year, his first short film, Entering Reality, in 1999, he founded the production company Die Filmmanufaktur with Oliver Weiss. In 2000, he made the short film Der Atemkünstler, for which he was nominated for the Talent award First Steps, in 2003, his first feature-length film, Ganz und gar, which describes the life of a young leg amputee, was released in theaters. This was followed in 2004 by the drama Sommersturm, which, according to Kreuzpaintner, in 2006, he wrote the screenplay for the film version of the youth novel Die Wolke. In 2007, Trade was releasted internationally, the film focuses on the subject of human trafficking, forced prostitution, and modern slavery. For this film, Kreuzpaintner was awarded with the Cinema for Peace Special Award by the Hessischer Filmpreis, Trade was produced by Rosilyn Heller and was originally supposed to be directed by Roland Emmerich. However, as he was involved in preparation for directing 10.000 B. C. at the time, another director was sought, and Emmerich chose Kreuzpaintner, having met him previously in Munich in 2003. On October 9,2008, Krabat, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Otfried Preußler was released, starring Robert Stadlober, Daniel Brühl. In 2009, Kreuzpaintner founded the production company Summerstorm Entertainment in Berlin, along with producers Ossie von Richthofen, one of the companys first projects is a Brazilian-German co-production with the working title Her Name Was Lola. The film is a comedy which will be filmed in English, and deals with a woman from London. The Brazilian actor Jonathan Haagensen will play the lead role. Filming should begin in the beginning of the year in London

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Marco Kreuzpaintner, February 5, 2009.

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Bella (film)
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Bella is a 2006 American drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, starring Eduardo Verastegui and Tammy Blanchard. Set in New York City, the film is about the events of one day, Bella tells the story of Nina, a New York City waitress, and her co-worker José, a cook. The kitchen of a Mexican restaurant in Manhattan is getting ready for the noon rush, Nina arrives late for the second day in a row. Manny, the restaurant owner and Joses brother, fires her, as Nina leaves, José follows her outside. She tells him she is pregnant but says she is not ready for a baby and is seriously considering abortion and he takes her to his parents house and introduces her to his family. He then takes her into the garage and shows her his old car and also tells her that a few years ago he had been driving his car when he accidentally hit and he was sentenced to four years in prison. After being released, he tried unsuccessfully multiple times to get in touch with the girls mother, José and Nina have dinner at his parents house during which Nina finds out that Manny was adopted. Josés parents tell Nina she is welcome to stay at their house. José takes Nina to the beach, which is near the house, Nina tells José of how her fathers death when she was twelve caused her and her mother severe emotional pain. Since Nina had no siblings and spent her childhood taking care of her crippled mother. The next day, before they go their own way. José walks back to the restaurant and reconciles with Manny, several years later, José is playing on a beach with a young girl, Bella, Ninas daughter and Josés adopted daughter. Nina pulls up in a taxi and meets Bella for the first time, the movie ends as Nina, Bella, and José walk down the beach together. Bella features Manuel Perez, Angelica Aragon, Jaime Terelli, Ali Landry, the film was produced by Sean Wolfington, Eduardo Verastegui, Leo Severino, Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Denise Pinckley and Jason Jones. Executive producers were J. Eustace Wolfington, Sean Wolfington, Ana Wolfington and it was financed by producers Sean Wolfington and Eustace Wolfington. Stephen McEveety, producer of Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ, consulted on the script, after the film was finished, Bella is McEveetys first release under his new company Mpower Pictures. Bella was produced by Metanoia Films, lionsgate and Roadside Attractions acquired United States distribution rights to the film and released the film on October 26,2007, according to The Hollywood Reporter. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Bella has an rating of 44% based on reviews from 64 critics

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Alejandro Gomez Monteverde
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Jose Alejandro Gomez Monteverde is a Mexican film director. His first film, Bella took top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival by winning the “Peoples Choice Award”, Monteverde directed and co-wrote Little Boy, a film set during World War II, released in 2015. Monteverde married American actress Ali Landry on April 8,2006 in San Miguel de Allende and they have three children, daughter Estela Ines, and sons Marcelo Alejandro and Valentin Francesco. Valentins middle name was inspired by Pope Francis, as Landry and Monteverde met him while she was pregnant, Alejandro Gómez Monteverde at the Internet Movie Database

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Starting Out in the Evening
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Starting Out in the Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Andrew Wagner. The screenplay by Wagner and Fred Parnes is based on the novel of the name by Brian Morton. But the young woman is relentless, and he agrees to weekly meetings in which he slowly begins to open up to her as he reluctantly recalls his past. Slightly suspicious of Heathers motives is Leonards daughter Ariel, a professional dancer who supports herself by teaching yoga. Rapidly approaching forty, Ariel has stopped using birth control with her boyfriend Victor without telling him about her determination to have a baby. When he learns about her plan, she ends their relationship, coincidentally at the same time Ariels former lover Casey Davis returns to New York City after a five-year absence. He and Ariel had reached an impasse in their relationship because of his refusal to have a child, Starting Out in the Evening was shot on location on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in eighteen days. It grossed $76,214 on its opening weekend and eventually earned $898,786 in the U. S. A. O, scott of the New York Times observed, Even though it is less populous than Mr. Morton’s novel. Rarely feels unduly claustrophobic or rarefied, allusions and incidents that evoked the milieu of Leonard’s younger days, and the texture of his mind, have been pruned away. But in their place is the fact of Mr. Langella. And what is so remarkable about is that he seems to hold Leonard’s intellectual cosmos inside him, to make it implicit in the man’s every gesture and pause. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said the novels appeal was in the simple but elegant prose. Neither of those elements translates into a medium, and so anyone adapting this novel was sure to face a challenge. Unfortunately, director and co-writer Andrew Wagner compounds the difficulty by wallowing in the storys bleakness, frank Langella is the single big exception on the acting score. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film remarkable and said Langella delivers a class in acting deeply felt portrait of a lion in winter. Meghan Keane of the New York Sun stated, The glowing accolades that the attempt to bestow on the novelist Brian Morton ultimately result in an undercooked product. He film is unable to re-create the delicate balance of emotions that Mr. Morton created in his book of the same name, the deference to work is clear throughout the picture, but the interactions between the characters often fail to realize the soft sentiment that his novel achieved. Critics for the Washington Post, the New York Times, Andrew Wagner and Fred Parnes were nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay

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Teeth (film)
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Teeth is a 2007 black comedy horror film written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. The movie stars Jess Weixler and was produced by Lichtenstein on a budget of US$2 million, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19,2007, and was distributed by Roadside Attractions for a limited release in the United States. Despite being positively received by critics, the film had a box office gross of $2,340,110. At Sundance, Weixler received the Grand Jury Prize for Acting, the film has a plot based around a Dawn OKeefe, a woman with teeth in her vagina, who sets out to take vengeance on all men who have wronged her after being raped. Dawn O’Keefe is a spokesperson for a Christian abstinence group called the Promise. She attends groups with her two friends, Alisha and Phil, one evening after giving a speech about the purity ring worn by members of the group, she is introduced to Tobey and finds him attractive. The four begin going out as a group, Dawn has fantasies about marrying Tobey, although after acknowledging the attraction, they agree that they cannot spend time together. Soon after they give in and meet at a swimming hole. After swimming together, they go into a cave to get warm, Dawn gets uncomfortable and tries to get them to go back. Tobey then attempts to rape Dawn, who panics and tries to him off. Tobey becomes aggressive and shakes Dawn, resulting in her smacking her head on the ground, while she is dazed, Tobey takes the opportunity to begin raping her. Dawn fights back and inadvertently bites off his penis with her vagina, a horrified Dawn stumbles away and she flees the scene. After a Promise meeting, she meets her classmate Ryan at a dance, they talk, Dawn drops her purity ring off a cliff and goes back to the swimming hole. She screams in horror when she sees a freshwater crab crawling on Tobeys penis and she then researches vagina dentata and realizes she may have it. She visits a gynecologist, Dr. Godfrey, in an attempt to find out what is happening to her. When he assaults her in the guise of an examination, reaching up inside her without a glove, she panics, while biking home, she encounters a police officer driving Tobeys car and sees several police vehicles pass. She decides to go back to visit the pool to investigate, when she arrives, she sees the police bringing up Tobeys body - he presumably died of shock in the water. Meanwhile, back at home, her ill mother Kim OKeefe collapses, dawns stepbrother Brad and his girlfriend Melanie hear her collapse but ignore her, continuing to have sex while she lies on the floor

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Caramel (film)
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Caramel is a 2007 Lebanese film — the first feature film by Lebanese director-actress Nadine Labaki. The film premiered on May 20 at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and it ran for the Caméra dOr. Caramel was distributed in over 40 countries, easily becoming the most internationally acclaimed and exposed Lebanese film to date, Labakis film is unique for not showcasing a war-ravaged Beirut but rather a warm and inviting locale where people deal with universal issues. The title Caramel refers to a method that consists of heating sugar, water. Caramel revolves around the lives of five Lebanese women. Layale works in a beauty salon in Beirut along with two women, Nisrine and Rima. The film does not refer to any of the problems or recent warfare that has troubled Lebanon. Rather, Labakis tale paints everyday people with everyday problems, the shooting of Caramel ended just nine days before the Israel-Lebanon war erupted in July 2006 and was released in Cannes exactly one year after the shooting began. An old clothes shop in the Gemmayzeh area of Beirut District was transformed into a salon where the filming of the movie took place, caroline Labaki, Nadines sister, was the costume designer. The music was composed by Khaled Mouzanar, shortly after the movie release, Labaki married him. Metacritic reported the film had a score of 70 out of 100. As of 18 May 2008, the film has grossed a little over $1 million in the US although it was a limited release. Internationally, it has amassed a little over $14 million, making it a very profitable foreign film and it was released on DVD in the United States on 17 June 2008. The film was Lebanons official submission to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, san Sebastian Film Festival Youth Award 2007. San Sebastian Film Festival TCM Audience Award 2007, san Sebastian Film Festival Sebastiane Award 2007. Abu Dhabi Black Pearl for Best Actress for Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Masri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisele Aouad, Siham Haddad, variety Middle East Filmmaker of the Year for Nadine Labaki during the Middle East International film festival 2007. Best Feature Film, Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2007, achievement in Directing for Nadine Labaki, Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2007. Performance by an Actress for Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Masri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisele Aouad, Siham Haddad and Aziza Semaan, Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2007

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Nadine Labaki
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Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress and director. In 1998, she attended a workshop in acting at the Cours Florent in Paris and she went on to direct advertisements and music videos for renowned Middle Eastern singers, for which she won several awards. In 2005, Labaki took part in the Cannes Film Festival Residence in order to write Caramel, in 2006, she went on to direct and play one of the lead roles in Caramel, which showcases a Beirut that most people are not familiar with. The film premiered at the Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and was a success in the summer of that same year. In 2008 the French Ministry of Culture and Communication gave her the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Arts, in 2010, Labaki directed and starred in her second feature film, Where Do We Go Now. Which tackles with humor a delicate subject about a village in which church and mosque stand side by side, the film also premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category in 2011. It was a success and won the Cadillac people’s choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival. It also collected many awards in festivals around the world, like Cannes Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film was nominated for best foreign film at the Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles. Labaki announced she was prepping her third film Capernaum in 2016 and she was selected to be on the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. As an actor, Labaki starred in Stray Bullet directed by Georges Hachem in 2010 and she appears in the Moroccan production Rock The Casbah directed by Laila Marrakchi alongside actors Hiam Abbas and Lubna Azabal. Nadine Labaki was a candidate on the list of the new political movement Beirut Madinati for the capital’s May 2016 local election, Labaki is multilingual, fluent in Arabic, French, English and Italian. In 2007, she married musician and composer Khaled Mouzanar, in 2009, Nadine Labaki gave birth to her first boy Walid. In 2016, Labaki received a degree from the American University of Beirut and was the speaker at the 150th Commencement Ceremony. Premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, released and premiered as part of the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. - plays Amale Rock The Casbah Mea Culpa Rio, I Love You - plays herself La Rançon de la gloire The Idol Official website Official fan page Nadine Labaki at the Internet Movie Database

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Chicago 10 (film)
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Chicago 10, Speak Your Peace is a 2007 American animated documentary written and directed by Brett Morgen that tells the story of the Chicago Eight. It also contains footage of Abbie Hoffman, David Dellinger, William Kunstler, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden, and Leonard Weinglass. The title is drawn from a quote by Rubin, who said and you can call us the Chicago Eight, but really were the Chicago Ten, because our two lawyers went down with us. In 1968, a group of protestors got together to protest the Vietnam War where their actions led to their arrest, the animated courtroom sequences were also informed by Jerry Rubins description of the trial as a cartoon show. The film premiered January 18,2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and it later premiered at Silverdocs, the AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. The film opened in limited release in the United States on February 29,2008 and it was aired nationally on the PBS program, Independent Lens, on October 22,2008. The film received favorable reviews from critics. As of April 11,2010, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 80% of their critics gave the positive reviews. Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 69 out of 100

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Before the Rains
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Before the Rains is a 2007 Indian-British period drama film directed by Santosh Sivan. The film is adapted from a story from the 2001 anthology Israeli film Asphalt Zahov and it was filmed on location in Kerala, India and was released in cinemas in India, the US and the UK. Before the Rains is set in 1930s Malabar District of the Madras Presidency of British India, an idealistic young Indian man, T. K. Henry and T. K. are working on constructing a road in rural Kerala, the start of the film focuses on the affair between Henry and his house-maid Sajani. They make love near a waterfall, witnessed by two children who flee, both Henry and Sajani are married to different partners and both know of each others marriages. Henrys wife Laura and son Peter return from their vacation in England, Sajani is distraught but Henry assures Sajani that she is the one he loves. Sajanis violent husband finds out about her infidelity and brutally beats her, Sajani flees to Henrys house, Henry instructs T. K. to take her away into hiding. T. K tells Sajani never to back as she is now disgraced. Sajani does not believe T. K but leaves nonetheless, during this time, resentment towards the British grows stronger, news about an adulterous act between an Indian woman and a British man would be inflammatory. Sajanis love for Henry drives her back to Henrys house, Henry tells her to leave and admits that he does not love her. A distraught Sajani finds T. Ks handgun, shoots herself in the chest, T. K. and Henry throw her body in the river to conceal her death. Sajanis disappearance garners interest in the village, Sajanis brother Manas and husband gather the men of the village to search the jungle for her. The same two children who discovered Sajani and Henry near the waterfall in compromising position then discover her dead body and it is established that a bullet from an English pistol killed her. A mob led by Sajanis husband attacks T. K. the only Indian man around with a handgun, the bullet and the handgun match and T. K is tried by the village council for murder. T. K is forced to tell the truth to the council, while Henrys wife discovers her husbands affair and his involvement in Sajanis death, T. K proves his innocence to the council in a test of fire. The council elders tell T. K. that he has to kill Henry to get his honour back since he aided and abetted in covering up a killing, Sajanis brother and T. K. go to kill Henry. When it comes to the moment for T. K to kill Henry, he pull the trigger but instead tells Henry that no man owns anything. The film ends with the onset of the monsoon, Henry and T. Ks road holds and does not yield to the pouring rains

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Santosh Sivan
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Santosh Sivan ASC, ISC is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor in Indian cinema. Santosh graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India and has to date completed 45 feature films and 41 documentaries and he is a founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers and is the most awarded Director of Photography in India. Santosh became the first Cinematographer in the Asia-Pacific region to be honoured with American Society of Cinematographers membership, as a cinematographer, he has won five National Film Awards – including four for Best Feature Film Cinematography. As of 2014, he has received 11 National Film Awards, Santosh was born into a family of artists. His grandmother used to him painting and music in the palace. He graduated from Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram and his grandmother often narrated the mythological stories of the themes of these paintings, where in the postures, colours guided the imagination. This turned out to be his very first visual education and his father used to make documentaries and during holidays he would excitedly, volunteer to help. He loved sketching with charcoal, and was fascinated by details that you observe when you want to sketch, during these travels to remote areas in South India, He was fortunate to listen folklores and stories of people of the land. He is the brother of filmmaker Sangeeth Sivan and elder brother of Sanjeev Sivan. The trio are the sons of the well known cinematographer and director Sivan and he was awarded the National Award for best Cinematographer for the films Perumthachan, Kalapani, Mohiniyattam, Iruvar and Dil Se. Santosh was honoured by the Japanese Society of Cinematographers and has been on the Jury for the Busan Film Festival and he is a mentor to students for Mira Nairs Maisha Film Lab, in Uganda and is a director to the Sivan Foundation of photography. He was also a council member at the Pune Film Institute. As a director, Santosh won his first National Award in 1988 for the film Story of Tiblu and his film Halo was honoured at the 43rd National Film Awards as the Best Childrens Film and Best Sound. Santosh received worldwide accolades for The Terrorist, which won the Best Director, Best Actress Awards and it was awarded the National Award for The Best Tamil Film and was an Official Selection at the Sundance, Seattle and Toronto Film Festivals of that year. The film was listed in Roger Eberts 100 Best Films. The latter also participated in the Pusan and Rotterdam Film Festivals and his debut Malayalam Language film as director, Anandabhadram, went on to win several State Awards, including Best Director & Best Cinematographer. Santosh has worked as the Cinematographer in Gurinder Chadhas Bride & Prejudice, Santosh directed Before the Rains which is premiered as a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival. In addition, his short film PRARAMBHA, which was created for the Bill and Melinda Gates AIDS Foundation and it won the National Awards 2007 for Best Producer and Best Director in the Educational and Motivational Film category

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Santosh Sivan at his studio (2011)

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The Fall (2006 film)
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The Fall is a 2006 adventure fantasy film directed by Tarsem Singh, starring Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, and Justine Waddell. It is based on the screenplay of the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho by Valeri Petrov, the film was released to theaters in 2008 and earned $3.7 million worldwide. Los Angeles,1915, stuntman Roy Walker is hospitalized, as he is bedridden and he meets Alexandria, a young Romanian-born patient in the hospital who is recovering from a broken arm, and begins to tell her a story about her namesake. Alexandria is told she has to leave, but Roy promises to tell her an epic tale if she returns the next day, the next morning, as Roy spins his tale of fantasy, Alexandrias imagination brings his characters to life. An evil ruler named Governor Odious has committed an offense against each of the five, the heroes are later joined by a sixth hero, a mystic. Alexandria vividly imagines her friends and people around her appearing as the characters in Roys story, however, Alexandria returns with only three pills, having mistaken the E on the piece of paper Roy gave her for a 3. The stories become a tale to which Alexandria also contributes. Alexandria herself becomes a character, while Roy is the masked bandit, Roy talks Alexandria into stealing a bottle of morphine tablets locked in a fellow patients cabinet, and then downs it all. The next morning, Roy awakens from his sleep and realizes he is alive because his neighboring patient is receiving a placebo rather than actual morphine. Alexandria, desperate to help Roy, sneaks out of bed to the pharmacy and she climbs onto the cabinet but loses her footing, falls, and is badly injured. She receives surgery, after which she is visited by Roy and he encourages Alexandria to ask someone else to end the story, but she insists on hearing Roys ending. Roy reluctantly begins the rest of the story, the heroes die one by one, and it seems that Governor Odious will be triumphant. Alexandria becomes upset, and Roy insists, Its my story and she declares that it is hers too and exerts some influence on the course of the tale. Finally, the tale comes to an end with only the Bandit and his daughter remaining alive. Roy and Alexandria, along with the patients and staff of the hospital, with everyone laughing, only Roys smile is broken in confusion when he sees that his life-threatening jump has been edited out of the film as another stuntman jumps instead. Alexandria’s arm heals and she returns to the orchard where her family works. Her voice-over reveals that Roy had recovered and was now back at work again, as she talks, a montage of cuts from several of silent films greatest and most dangerous stunts plays, she imagines all the stuntmen to be Roy. The DVD supplementary features reveal that actor Lee Pace remained in a bed for most of the filming at the directors suggestion

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Tarsem Singh
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Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, known professionally as Tarsem, is an Indian-American director who has worked on films, music videos, and commercials. Tarsem was born in Jalandhar, Punjab to a Punjabi Sikh family and his father was an aircraft engineer. He attended Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, Hans Raj College in Delhi and he has directed dozens of commercials for brands such as Nike and Coca-Cola. Tarsems feature film debut was The Cell, starring Jennifer Lopez. In 2003, Tarsem directed one of the most elaborate Pepsi commercials to date and it combined a gladiator theme with Queens We Will Rock You. The commercial starred Enrique Iglesias in the version of the aired in Europe and North America. Ultimately the gladiatrices turn against the emperor and throw him from his seat, on the other hand, Diabs version shows the gladiatrices being attacked by a lion after the emperor realizes their intentions. Tarsems second film, The Fall, debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States in 2008 and his third film was 2011s Immortals. He directed an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story of Snow White, the Cell The Fall Immortals Mirror Mirror Self/less Emerald City In the latter half of Kendrick Lamars Track, M. A. A. D. City, the melody sampled is the one of Tarsem Singhs from his work in The Fall, Music played in the film shortly after Roys drowning scene Henry Keazor/Thorsten Wuebbena, Video Thrills the Radio Star – Musikvideos, Geschichte, Themen, Analysen, Bielefeld. Tarsem Singh at the Internet Movie Database Official website Tarsem Singh at the Music Video DataBase 6 part video journal with Tarsem Singh on the set of IMMORTALS at iamrogue. com

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Singh at WonderCon 2011

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Bernard Shakey
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Neil Percival Young, OC OM, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. Young began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, in 1966, after a brief stint with the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds, he moved to Los Angeles, where he formed Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Young had released two albums by the time he joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969, in addition to two as a member of Buffalo Springfield. From his early albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has recorded a steady stream of studio and live albums. Youngs often-distorted electric guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice transcend his long career, Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums which frequently combine folk, rock, blues and other musical styles. Known to rip up live set lists, Young often plays acoustic versions of songs in one show and his gritty guitar work, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname Godfather of Grunge and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently Young has been backed by Promise of the Real, Young directed films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past, Rust Never Sleeps, Human Highway, Greendale, and CSNY/Déjà Vu. He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia and Dead Man, Young has received several Grammy and Juno awards. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice, as a solo artist in 1995, in 2000, Rolling Stone named Young the 34th greatest rock n roll artist. He has lived in California since the 1960s but retains Canadian citizenship and he was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14,2006, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30,2009. Young was born on November 12,1945, in Toronto and his father, Scott Alexander Young, was a journalist and sportswriter who also wrote fiction. His mother, Edna Blow Ragland Rassy Young was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, although Canadian, his mother had American and French ancestry. Youngs parents married in 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their first son, shortly after Youngs birth in 1945, his family moved to rural Omemee, Ontario, which Young later described fondly as a sleepy little place. Young suffered from polio in 1951 during the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario, after his recovery, the Young family vacationed in Florida. During that period, Young briefly attended Chisolm Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, in 1952, upon returning to Canada, Young moved from Omemee to Winnipeg for a year, before relocating to Toronto and Pickering. Young became interested in music he heard on the radio. When Young was twelve, his father, who had several extramarital affairs and his mother asked for a divorce which was granted in 1960. Young went to live with his mother, who moved back to Winnipeg, during the mid-fifties, Young listened to rock n roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, R&B, country, and western pop

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Young in 1983
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The Last Waltz, Young (center on left microphone) performing with Bob Dylan and The Band, among others in 1976.
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Young playing in Barcelona, Spain, 1984

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Beer for My Horses (film)
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Beer for My Horses is a 2008 American comedy film. The film stars country music entertainer Toby Keith and is based on his song by the same name, the film was co-written by Keith and Rodney Carrington and directed by Michael Salomon, who has directed numerous music videos for Keith. The film was shot in and around Las Vegas, New Mexico and it made about $650,000 in its limited box office release. The movie received negative reviews, and was a major box-office bomb, best friends Joe Bill Rack Racklin and Lonnie Freeman are deputy sheriffs in the small town of Mangum, Oklahoma that enjoy pig hunting and drinking at the local bar the Thirsty Monkey. Rack, Lonnie, and their friend and fellow deputy Skunk Tarver arrest three local criminals and a Mexican drug lord Tito Garza for stealing fertilizer that is intended to make methamphetamine. Manuel contacts the police and demands Manuel top be returned to him in Santa Luna, despite being taken off the case by their boss Sheriff Landry, Rack, Lonnie, and Skunk bust Tito out of his jail cell and take him to Mexico. Along the way, they approach a young hooker named Harveyetta and are helped by a group of circus entertainers led by Charlie, who gives them a jug of homemade whiskey known as circus jolly. Baker reveals that the district attorney Levin is corrupt and that he has been giving Annies mother goofy juice to make her appear to have Alzheimers disease. With the help of former criminal Johnny Franks who becomes undercover FBI agent Levon Spurlock, Rack kills Buck, Rack, Lonnie, and Skunk turn Manuel and Tito over to the FBI in Oklahoma City and return to Mangum. There they are cheered by the local crows at the Thirsty Monkey, Landry berates them for disobeying orders, but does not arrest them and everyone toasts whiskey for my men, beer for my horses while serving circus jolly, to which Skunk says. A. The film is available on DVD and Blu-Ray, and has made $27.5 million in DVD sales, the movie was panned by critics, being labeled a bland, boring, stupid, confusing, failed attempt to be a comedy. Other critics said it was made by stoners, for stoners, about stoners, Beer for My Horses at the Internet Movie Database Beer for My Horses at CMT. com

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I.O.U.S.A.
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I. O. U. S. A. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Patrick Creadon. The film focuses on the shape and impact of the United States national debt, the tour was carried out through the Concord Coalition, and was known as the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour. The film competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the film was broadcast on CNN on January 10,2009. The film follows Bixby and Walker who describe systematically four serious deficits shaping the U. S. economy, budget, savings, the balance of payments, and leadership. As of the early 2008 release of the film they had created a debt of over $9.6 trillion. The savings deficit is created by individuals living beyond their means, the balance of payments problem is the trade deficit caused by the U. S. importing more than it exports, especially from China, draining money and goods from its economy. China has the greatest trade surplus in the world while the USA has the largest trade deficit in the world and it also includes several members of Congress, including Senators Kent Conrad and Judd Gregg, and Representatives Ander Crenshaw, George Miller, and Ron Paul. ” After they sold the film to the Peterson Foundation, that story beat was edited out, the final cut of the film released in Aug.22,2008 blames rampant inflation in the 1970s on Arthur Burns, then chair of the Federal Reserve. I. O. U. S. A. received mostly positive reviews from critics and it received a score of 70 from Metacritic and a label of Generally favorable reviews. O. U. S. A. An alternately amusing and alarming primer on Americas off-the-charts fiscal irresponsibility, but I have just seen a documentary titled I. O. U. S. A. that snapped into sharp focus why your lives may not be as pleasant as ours have been. According to Ebert, I dont really believe this review will inspire enormous numbers of people to go see the film, but if they do, theyll find it accomplishes an amazing thing. It explains the debt, the foreign trade deficit, the decrease in personal savings, how the prime interest rate works. No, not only George W. Bush, but politicians of both parties, who know if they vote against tax cuts, they will be lambasted by their opponents, made Eberts list of Top Five Documentary Films of 2008. - The Book, published by John Wiley & Sons, was released in September 2008. It also elaborates on several statistics mentioned in the movie - from the $9 trillion federal debt to the $738.6 billion trade deficit to the fact that each citizen owes an average of $30,000. I. O. U. S. A. was also inspired by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggins book

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U.S. federal debt from 1940 to 2008, the year the documentary was released.